Klarinet Archive - Posting 000458.txt from 1994/10

From: "Joel Jaffe - Prof. Wohlmacher" <jjaffe@-----.EDU>
Subj: Mouthpieces etc.
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 19:39:10 -0500

Hi! After wading through the last two weeks of digets, I felt it was time
to introduce myself and comment on a few things.

I am a senior at Cal-State Hayward studying clarinet with Bill Wolmacher and
fininshing up my degree in music. Before Hayward I had bounced around from
teacher to teacher and college to college, with a few years spent at
Indiana Univeristy taking from James Campbell. After working the last few
years in the Silicon Valley, I have come to realize that computers have
no passion (though they do pay well) and that I need to learn as much about
music as I can. To that goal, I find this list most helpful and enjoyable.

Now to the comments. Sometime in the last week or so there was a quick posting o
n
the Vandoren M13. I am now playing on one and I find that it has some very
nice overtone characteristics and a good center to the sound, but does not
get very loud. Dennis Heaney at West Valley Music sold out his first
shipment in 1 week. He said that everyone who tried the M13 sounded richer
and fuller. If any of you are looking for a mouthpiece, it is worth a try.
I use a standard Bonade with Vandoren 3 1/2.

On playing first chair. At Hayward, we play different parts on every
piece (which makes for an interesting concert as the whole clarinet section
has to get up and move around between numbers). This gives everyone the chance
to play first, and to learn how to listen and fit the inner parts into what is
happening as well as the added challenge of playing the oh so melodic 3rd
clarinet parts musically. The band conductor does this because he says that
playing only first parts makes a 1st clarinetist and playing only 3rd parts
makes 3rd clarinetists and what he wants to make are musicians. I think he
has a great point.

Hope this helps

Joel Jaffe